It has been common all through the ages to
ask why Mankind, if not the entire known Universe, was
created. There are endless religious and secular
explanations, always with conflicts.

However, it is more useful and
understandable to ask why Gods are created. Every
society has a religious and spiritual tradition - and for good
reason. Without a God or other analogous Deity as
co-pilot, the atheist or agnostic is condemned to a perpetual
Hell of uncertainty. That individual becomes personally
responsible for their own moral and ethical system, plus there
is an issue of risk management. Without the illusion, if
you will, of Divine support many risky undertakings throughout
history would have been non-starters. If one expands
their temporal aperture surround as per this monograph, i.e.,
tending to become a broad and deep
polymath or
"Renaissance person", the
factor of uncertainty could asymptotically approach
infinity. Along with the growth of rational, reasonable
thought comes a gnawing inescapable surround of uncertainty in
direct proportion. That uncertainty is the endless Hell of the
dedicated truth seeking renaissance mind that would intend to
deny religion and its inevitable Deities.

Temporal aperture surround expansion
poses the Ultimate Conundrum where the limit is not how much
broad knowledge one can accumulate in a given mind-body but
rather how much uncertainty that individual can stand without
developing inevitable psychological and physical difficulties.
A dog does not need to create a religion, but human beings
do.

As a large enough group of people
successfully expand their respective temporal aperture volumes
given the vast new accumulations of knowledge in recent
centuries, those persons will inevitably need to create new
Gods and religions to accommodate the uncertainties of their
new aggrandized knowledge scenarios.

It is proposed that the new drive in the
US towards more fundamentalist religion infusion into
political and social arenas is an unconscious reaction to vast
new uncertainties in a globalized highly interconnected
world. That fundamentalist drive though is in effect a
retrospective isolationist slant which will only serve to
further increase uncertainties however.